Improvement in chair and furniture-tips



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r'itANOIs HL BOLTON, OF BROOKLYMNEW YORK.

Letters `Patent No. 107,685, dated September 2?-, 18,70.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAlRAND .FURNITURE-TIPS.-

v l i i l .The'ischreiiulre referred to these Letters Patent rand making part of the same.

To lll/whom Lanai/,concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS H.` BOLTON, of

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and AStateoi' New.

York, have invented'a 'Ohair `or, Furniture-Tip, of

.ein India-rubber. pad, secured in tbc end of ametallic ferrule'or cap, i'orlthepurpose of applying it vto thelcgs of chairs, orother kinds of furniture, to prevent noise inlrnovingthem about on hard floors.

Figgurel 1 is a tip complete; On a chair leg. -Fignre^`2, metallic ferrule `or cap, the dotted lines showing the rnbbcrppad. The end to which the rubber is attached is perforated with holes, of any desired size or form, to permit the rubber tO interlock land bel come vulcanized'jn the ferrule or cap, lwhich fastens it so securely thatit cannot beremoved.

`Figure 3istheIndia-1'ubberpa(l,the dotted lines t showing'theferrule or cap.

Figurei, shows sectional vicw of ferrule or cap, and

the rubber pad.

Figure 5, shows end of ferrule or cap, with the perforations or holes by which the rubber is secured.

Figure 6, "shows f errule or cap, vwhich ma be straight or flaring, like the skeleton outline; t1erefore ters Patent, is-

` The combination ofthe India-rubber pad, iig.l3,

with'the metallic' ferrule or cap, figs. 2 andf, by vub canizing the rubber with the ierrule or ycap, all substantially as and for the purposes described.

' F. H. HOLTON.

Witnesses p WILLIAM GRAY,

N. EBAKER. v

What I claim as new, andfor which I desire Let- 

